Lake Maggiore, St. Petersburg, Florida, September 18, 2021 credit: City of Stopete/Flickr Salt Creek flows quietly through St. Petersburg’s Old Southeast neighborhood, past Bartlett Park, under a canopy of oak trees, and connects to Lake Maggiore at its southern end. To someone driving by the neighborhood, it may look like a drainage ditch, but … Read more
That the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest in Grafton County is still in the midst of the Trump administration’s “reorganization” (clear-cutting?) of the U.S. Forest Service is welcome news, as is the possibility that the Bartlett Experimental Forest in Carroll County will be given a reprieve. Both are essential resources, and their research benefits all … Read more
North America’s honey bee population is in trouble, but don’t blame the bees. Some argue that an overabundance of managed bees, kept to help pollinate crops and produce honey, is causing the extinction of native bees, but the evidence does not support that claim. It’s true that populations of many species of bees, including … Read more
Sweden is far from self-sufficient in vegetable production, with very little domestic vegetable seed production. The sector is highly dependent on imported goods such as seeds, synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, and fuel. “This makes the food system vulnerable,” argues Linda Groot Nibelink, a doctoral student in SLU’s Department of Biosystems Engineering. © Alba Martenson “It’s … Read more
When Jeff Bezos said a breakthrough technology would determine Amazon’s fate, even the biggest Wall Street analysts were caught off guard. Fast forward a year, and Amazon’s new CEO, Andy Jassy, says: Generation AI As a “once in a lifetime” technology that is already being used across Amazon to reinvent the customer experience. At the … Read more
The Green Bay Packers will begin OTAs next week without one of their best players. Tucker Craft, one of the NFL’s best tight ends, is recovering from a torn ACL last year. There is some optimism that he will be on the field in Week 1, but clearly he will not participate in the three … Read more
GAA communications director Alan Milton said it was “simply not possible” to exclusively broadcast Championship matches free-to-air and GAA+ would remain as the association’s broadcast partner in the future. Rights to broadcast Championship matches live are shared between RTÉ, BBC and GAA+, with 40 matches available on the latter streaming service. His current contract expires … Read more
On the morning of January 8, 2025, a red dot appeared on NASA’s resource management system fire information. It was the first sign of what would become one of the deadliest wildfires in California history, killing dozens of people and destroying thousands of homes in the Palisades. All the while, Aqua satellites orbited above, scanning … Read more